The Third Doctrinal War -- Stardock, Reiche/Ford, and Star Control

[Lantz]

@Brad_Wardell

When they first announced their game, we were very supportive. We assumed that they would be working with us in some form because they were so strongly associating with our trademark. Once it became clear that wasn’t the case, we asked that they cease using our trademarks and stop referring to their game as a sequel to it.

You repeatedly said that you expected them to do it separately from you. Here’s one of them, but there are plenty others.

@Brad_Wardell

In short, we want them to do Ghosts but we don’t want to have any responsibility for it either. It’s their game.

As far as this:

@Brad_Wardell

This kind of reasoning would be akin to saying that Paul and Fred lied when they said that Stardock has the Star Control trademarks (over and over again) but then turned around and began claiming that Stardock doesn’t actually have the trademark.

This is about whether you have been honest and telling the truth at various points along this extended conversation to me (and to the other members of this community). Whether your legal opponent is telling the truth in their blogs or filings has no bearing on your good faith here in this community.

If you have to resort to some kind of equivalency that P&F are lying in their blog posts as why it would be okay for you to lie to me in a personal conversation then that re-enforces my view that you are aware that you were making untrue claims to look better and now you are trying to minimize them by blaming the other side. But how is that supposed to change my opinion? P&F are not in dispute with me, I don’t really care about their legal situation.

I understand that you are involved in a contentious legal situation, but you are coming to this community to tell a lot of reasonable people that they are not discussing in good faith so you should consider if you are discussing in good faith yourself.